Arizona has a voter initiative that would change state laws to allow for state and local police to arrest noncitizens who cross the border unlawfully and allow for state judges to order deportations. A North Dakota ballot includes an initiative that would require future ballot measures ...
"Any other lawsuit that's dependent on Section 2 and the effects side, it's really difficult to see how the Arizona case is anything other than a full body blow to those cases," Levinson said. "Depending on how judges want to apply the factors, it's maybe not a death knell for ...
Judge restores voting rights for 4 tangled in Tennessee gun rights mandate but uncertainty remains Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]September 12 Court says Jim Crow-era felony voting ban in Mississippi can be altered by lawmakers, not judges ...
“Now this decision, if upheld, all but removes private causes of action to challenge VRA violations,” Schultz said. “This is despite decades of precedent that reaches a different conclusion. This is the danger of the textualism that many judges are using. They ignore a major f...
THE WASHINGTON TIMESA federal court heard testimony Tuesday in a lawsuit over whether Maryland's new congressional map illegally dilutes the influence of black voters.Attorneys for a group of nine voters argued before a three-judge panel that officials in the Democrat-dominated state willfully spl...
Judges in both Michigan and North Carolina dismissed lawsuits brought on by the Republican National Committee that would have increased restrictions for overseas ballots. Some Republicans argued that these restrictions were necessary to maintain the integrity of the presidential election. CBS News congressio...
Each county enlists election judges to deliver absentee ballots to hospitalized voters (M.S.A. § 203B.11[3]).Some people have had to fight for the right to vote by absentee ballot. In Cepulonis v. Secretary of the Commonwealth, 452 N.E. 2d 1137, 389 Mass. 930 (Mass. 1983), ...
for accuracy in ballot distribution, instructed that Check-in Judges be reminded to circle the ballot style number on the Voter Authority Card (VAC) to make it easier to see, and Ballot Judges be reminded to double check the ballot style number on the VAC and ensure that they were issuing...
Trump has used this technique to intimidate Democrats from questioning the 2016 Election, accused Democrats of obstructing his agenda and appointments (while also boasting he has gotten a record number of judges appointed), and basically ignoring the majority of Americans in this supposed democracy on...
Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies were dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court,...